Burning Designs onto Leather – Leather Pyrography

If you own a craft wood burner you can easily use the same technique for burning designs onto leather:

I found these little leather tags at Michaels in the jewelry section and thought they’d be so cute with some little designs etched onto them:

I use the smallest tip of my wood burner for writing. I usually lightly sketch out my design with a toothpick first and the use the wood burning tool to etch my design. You can add depth to any design by experimenting with different hatch marks and varying the pressure used:

I also use the tool to burn the edges of the tags as well. It adds adds a burnished look to the piece:

You can paint leather with acrylic paints if you make sure to remove any shine or coating. These were raw leather and I just scuffed up the piece a little where I wanted the paint to go. I love how this tag turned out as part of a necklace I made for the shop: